We performed a comparison between SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and XLCubed based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two BI (Business Intelligence) Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It can process big volumes of data fast."
"There are two tools inside BusinessObjects' schematic layout called the Universal Design Tool and Information Design Tool. These are the most powerful tools that set BusinessObjects' reporting from other solutions. If my organization has 300 or 400 tables, I can combine all of them into one universe, and everyone can use that. It is just a schematic layout that does not hold any data but the table relationships."
"Business analytics are the most valuable features of this solution; I don't have experience with the other functional features offered."
"It is stable and robust. It has pretty direct integration with SAP ERP. It is easy to use."
"The ability to merge dimensions in a report is great."
"It has got great flexibility. As a reporting tool, it has a great deal of flexibility for numerous data resources that you can bring into it. It allows you to write your SQL query directly within the product. So, it allows you to do server-side joins instead of pulling all the data into Crystal Report to aggregate that data. It has great visualization. For the most part, it operates quite efficiently."
"It provides flexibility for creating reports. It is very good for creating highly-complex reports. I like this solution because when I buy BusinessObjects, it comes with many components, such as reporting, dashboard, and data visualization tools. Its performance is good. It is running on top of SAP BW and SAP HANA."
"Provides autonomy for all the business users to develop their own reports."
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"Great capability, performance, flexibility, visuals, and the solution is also very cost effective."
"I am looking forward to testing their full graphics that are available, as they looked very interesting in the demo."
"Integrations with things like Active Directory and LDAP tend to be a little complex."
"The user interface should be easier to use and navigate."
"Recently, it's become less stable if I am working on Citrix."
"Tableau was easier for me to use because the interface is more similar to Excel which I was used to using."
"The admin features for disk space management need work. It's very difficult to manage the disk space by the application; good admin features and not included to allow you to do that. I don't believe that is in the latest version of the product either."
"More thorough testing of Service Packs before release."
"I don't like the fact that I have to use two tools. Web Intelligence is good for reporting and all kinds of stuff, but I would rather have one product. All the reporting features of Web Intelligence should be developed within Lumira. A lot of predictive abilities have been brought into the cloud version of SAP Analytics. It would be nice to see a lot of newer technologies and AI. Predictive capabilities are becoming a little more standard. Instead of having to get another model, we are just looking for one solution to deal with analytics including predictive."
"The dashboard tool is called Lumira and it is very uncomfortable for developers to use. They should improve this in the future."
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"Would like the ability to be able to benchmark."
"There should be a better or an easier way to establish that connection to external sources."
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SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is ranked 6th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 102 reviews while XLCubed is ranked 26th in Reporting. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is rated 7.8, while XLCubed is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform writes "Web intelligence will work with any amount of data even if you have 10 million rows". On the other hand, the top reviewer of XLCubed writes "Cost effective with great capability, performance, flexibility and visuals". SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, IBM Cognos and MicroStrategy, whereas XLCubed is most compared with Microsoft Power BI and Tableau. See our SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform vs. XLCubed report.
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